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Bleeding After a Single Dose of Ketorolac in a Postoperative Patient

A 74-year-old male patient with extensive cardiac history and hepatitis on apixaban and clopidogrel presented with adhesive small bowel obstruction. The patient underwent an exploratory laparotomy and adhesiolysis for small bowel obstruction. On postoperative day 6, after a single dose of ketorolac,...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Anupam K, Parker, Barbara M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32760620
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8919
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description A 74-year-old male patient with extensive cardiac history and hepatitis on apixaban and clopidogrel presented with adhesive small bowel obstruction. The patient underwent an exploratory laparotomy and adhesiolysis for small bowel obstruction. On postoperative day 6, after a single dose of ketorolac, the patient had an intra-abdominal bleed requiring exploratory laparotomy and washout.
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spelling pubmed-73921842020-08-04 Bleeding After a Single Dose of Ketorolac in a Postoperative Patient Gupta, Anupam K Parker, Barbara M Cureus Gastroenterology A 74-year-old male patient with extensive cardiac history and hepatitis on apixaban and clopidogrel presented with adhesive small bowel obstruction. The patient underwent an exploratory laparotomy and adhesiolysis for small bowel obstruction. On postoperative day 6, after a single dose of ketorolac, the patient had an intra-abdominal bleed requiring exploratory laparotomy and washout. Cureus 2020-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7392184/ /pubmed/32760620 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8919 Text en Copyright © 2020, Gupta et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Gupta, Anupam K
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Bleeding After a Single Dose of Ketorolac in a Postoperative Patient
title Bleeding After a Single Dose of Ketorolac in a Postoperative Patient
title_full Bleeding After a Single Dose of Ketorolac in a Postoperative Patient
title_fullStr Bleeding After a Single Dose of Ketorolac in a Postoperative Patient
title_full_unstemmed Bleeding After a Single Dose of Ketorolac in a Postoperative Patient
title_short Bleeding After a Single Dose of Ketorolac in a Postoperative Patient
title_sort bleeding after a single dose of ketorolac in a postoperative patient
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32760620
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8919
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